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I do have to add: Vlad, this is way better than those lame, uninspired graphs.

Vlad,
Save this uninspired, mindless crap for your own personal blog space and stop spamming a well reputed gaming news website.
Seriously, this has got to stop. It never was funny and each graph is getting embarrassingly worse.

Jack,
If you want to be taken seriously, you could, at the very least, offer some rebuttal to these arguments put against you. Otherwise, you're failing to show grounds for your arguments. And that's not very respectable.

Violent video games, music, and movies are part of a much grander scheme in our society where this seeming invulnerable violent masculinity manifests itself through those outlets. You can't target video games specifically as much as you must target our society's values that, since the Vietnam War, have put pressure on males to board up their invulnerabilities with a strong masculine, and often violent, identity. A large number of people who rejected the various civil rights and social movements in the 60s and have been running our country recently have this notion that the U.S. has lost its moral foundation; that we need to teach creationism in school; that evolution is wrong; that guns are for everybody; that church and state should not be completely seperated. You hear it all the time especially now with the elections coming in November. It's no coincidence that our idolized Ronald Reagan, our finally dead former president who was in large part responsible for the overwhelming deficit in the country through the 80s and into the 90s, used a political campaign to note his appearance to be the common, manly man who would stand up for "American values." He is someone who people saw as an emulated John Wayne. He in fact did work with Marion Morrison (John Wayne's rather feminine real name): the ultimate Hollywood achievement at trying to force this masculine image into our society, along with Rambo and all these invincible war heroes of 80s cinema that seemed to shout out, "We lost the war in Vietnam because we didn't have enough MEN!"
To say that video games are the problem is entirely short sighted. There is an ongoing crisis in our society that deals with masculinity. Ask the suburban white male teenagers who stole their black rapper clothes and attitude from the urban black neighborhood who use their physical gestures, most visible in the the hip hop community, to announce their dominance as stolen from classic Italian white men portrayed in famous gangster movies like The Godfather. But, this too is another phenomenon in itself.

Vlad, this has got to be one of the most idiotic posts I have seen on this website.
For the president of a large corporation to come down to a grass roots campaign to promote a new product is pretty admirable in my opinion.
You say your problem is that the media picks up this event like it's something that no company has done before. In that, I think you are wrong. This isn't main stream news. It still has its core niche audience. When Microsoft and Sony did the same thing for their respective hardware launches, it wasn't huge news either. What makes this specific launch important though, is the new appeal that the Wii is meant to have to its potential consumers. The fact that it's providing a new definition and genre of "gamers" magnifies the headline all the more. So I think that your comment has its place, but is a little preconceived.
I only wish he was coming to L.A. so I could meet the man and thank him.